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At the Bubastis temple, some cats were found to have been mummified and buried, many next to their owners. More than 300,000 mummified cats were discovered when Bastet's temple was excavated. Turner and Bateson suggest that the status of the cat was roughly equivalent to that of the cow in modern India. The death of a cat might leave a family ...
Bastet, the cat goddess, is an example of one such deity. [1] In 1888, an Egyptian farmer digging in the sand near Istabl Antar discovered a mass grave of felines, ancient cats that were mummified and buried in pits at great numbers.
During the Hellenistic period between 323 and 30 BC, the goddess Isis became associated with Bastet and cats, as indicated by an inscription at the Temple of Edfu: “Isis is the soul of Bastet”. In this period, cats were systematically bred to be killed and to be mummified as sacrifices to the gods. [20]
The cat cemetery developed in the second half of the first millennium BC became as important as the cat cemetery at Bubastis. Radiographic investigations showed that the majority of cats were killed at a young age by either strangulation or by violent blows on their skulls. Several examined packets contained only a few cat bones, and others ...
The 34-year-old Columbus, Ohio, local first went viral on TikTok after sharing a video of herself and her boyfriend, Brandon, finding a rug buried deep in the ground while building a fence in ...
A woman on TikTok went viral this week for burying her recently deceased mother in her backyard. In Texas, it is legal to bury a loved one on your own land in the state, according to the Texas ...
Meyer died on April 15, 1975, and is buried in El Paso’s B’nai Zion Cemetery. Adal Nasr Allah was 17 when she boarded the Titanic in 1912 as a second class passenger. She boarded a lifeboat ...
The Woodlawn Garden of Memories is a cemetery in Houston, Texas which is included in the National Register of Historic Places. NRHP lists Dionicio Rodriguez as the cemetery's architect. NRHP lists Dionicio Rodriguez as the cemetery's architect.